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Israel must stop expanding settlements and blockading Gaza - Russian UN Ambassador
| Jan 28, 2010 02:06 Moscow Time |
Russia believes renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks can only become possible after Israel lifts its strangulating blockade of Gaza, freezes all settlement activity and resumes compliance with its obligations under the roadmap peace plan. The Russian UN Ambassador Vitali Churkin told this to the United Nations Security Council at a sitting in New York of Wednesday. The roadmap is a peace blueprint from the Middle East mediators Russia, the United States, the United Nations and the European Union. Israeli and Palestinian compliance with it stopped in the summer of 2008 when Israel cut the flow of international aid to Gaza. This caused mass human suffering in that overcrowded area. The situation became even worse after Israel responded to militant rocketings from inside Gaza by launching a military operation in the Gaza Strip. The war started in the closing days of 2008 and lasted three weeks. It killed 13 Israelis and about 14 hundred Palestinians. Late February should see the next gathering of the mediating quartette for the Middle East.
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